VISTA – A mother and her 6-year-old son were injured Sunday night after a driver suspected of being drunk collided head-on with their vehicle.

Sheriff officials identified the suspected drunken driver as Juan Morales Sixto, 23, a Mexican national. Sixto was hospitalized with multiple facial fractures, abdominal bruises and a cut on his right thigh.

The mother, who also had her 4-month-old baby in the car, was driving east on West Vista Way near Huff Street just before 10 p.m. when Sixto drifted into her lane and slammed into them, authorities said.

She was taken to a hospital with back and foot injuries. Her two children were taken by helicopter to a hospital, where the older child was treated for a cut on his neck and was being watched closely because he was vomiting. The baby was not injured.

Investigators discovered Sixto was wanted on a 2005 warrant for suspicion of driving under the influence. He also is facing a felony DUI charge in Sunday's crash.

– Debbi Farr Baker

Search suspended
for lobsterman

CORONADO –
Authorities have suspended the search for a missing lobsterman after conducting one last search through San Diego Bay yesterday morning.

The body of a second man, identified as Matthew Rogers, was recovered Sunday in the waters off Coronado.

The U.S. Coast Guard, Harbor Police and San Diego Lifeguards looked for the man at dawn by air and sea but found nothing, said Anastasia Devlin, a Coast Guard spokeswoman.

Authorities said they don't plan to search further unlessthey get more specific information on where to look.

The men had gone out late Saturday in Rogers' aluminum skiff to set lobster pots.

– Angelica Martinez

Work overnight
on freeway lanes

RANCHO BERNARDO –
Caltrans crews will close off some southbound lanes of Interstate 15 through Rancho Bernardo for three nights, beginning tonight, for freeway improvements.

At least two lanes between Bernardo Center Drive and Camino del Norte, to the immediate right of the median, will be closed from 9 p.m. to 5 a.m. to make room for construction crews.

– Jeff Ristine

Beaches closed
due to sewage taint

IMPERIAL BEACH –
County health officials have closed beaches from Carnation Avenue south to the U.S.-Mexico border after recent rainfall caused sewage-contaminated water from the Tijuana River to enter the ocean.

The city's beaches, from Carnation Avenue to the south end of Seacoast Drive, were closed yesterday and border-area beaches, from the south end of Seacoast Drive to the border, were closed Sunday.

The county's Department of Environmental Health posted signs after contaminated river water began entering the United States and the Tijuana Estuary following heavy rain Saturday night. Ocean currents then pushed the water north.

The closures will remain in effect until new tests indicate ocean water is safe.

– Janine Zúñiga

Council to discuss
lawsuit on Prop. J

CORONADO –
The city has called a special council meeting at 2:30 p.m. today to discuss in closed session a lawsuit the city filed in August to remove Proposition J from the ballot or to delete parts it considers “illegal and unenforceable.”

The Registrar of Voters certified the results of several close races Dec. 5, including Proposition J, which passed by seven votes.